As night came they set up camp. As Alexander started making a campfire, Tujitou prepared the leopards.
“Do you even know how to field dress a leopard?”
“Field a what?”
“Field dress. Remove the organs off from the corpse.”
“Why would I?”
“Step aside and give me the knife. Go and dig a hole.”
“A hole? What for?”
“Go, you’ll see soon anyway.”
“Fine, what size does it have to be then?”
“Something half your size should be able to fit in it and it better be a nice place”, Tujitou then went off to dig a hole. After half an hour or so he came back to the camp.
“What took you so long?”
“Took a while to find a nice place. So what are you even going to put in that hole?”
“Come over here and open up your hands”, Tujitou didn’t question Alexander, but he was confused. As he walked toward Alexander he tried to look at what was in his hands. Alexander’s hands were still bloody from cleaning out the corpse. From a distance, it looked like 2 small organs. However, as Tujitou looked around he saw that the organs were thrown on the ground. Only after Alexander handed them to him did he realize what they were.
“I-I.”
“I know. Let’s go bury them.”
Tujitou could not stop looking at the fetuses in his hands. He didn’t cry, but the sad expression on his face also couldn’t leave. After they buried them they went back to the campsite. On arrival Tujitou immediately went to lie down and Alexander went to cook.
“Food’s done.”
“Not hungry. I’m going to sleep.”
“Alright. Night Tuj.”
Tujitou laid in front of the campfire. He didn’t know what to do, so he just observed. Just as if he was under a spell he looked at the fire. He looked at how the fire danced, listened to the harmony created from the night animals, insects and the crackling of when the fire consumed the wood. It brought him to tranquility. He kept observing the fire, not knowing how much time had gone by, until he eventually fell asleep. Just like how Tujitou was observing the fire, Alexander was observing Tujitou. When he finally fell asleep, he walked up to Tuj. He then squatted down and stroked his head.
“I was right to ask you to be my right-hand man. It’s funny don’t you think? He’s still a child and yet he feels so burdened by the lives his actions took away. How can I not want to save the world when people like him exist?”, Alexander then picked up a few pebbles that were on the ground.
“Don’t worry, he’s a heavy sleeper. So you can come out now.”
“Well, what you look at that. We have quite the youngster this time around boys”, 5 men then appeared all surrounding Alexander. They were all armed with rifles.
“Yeah Bill, quite the youngster.”
“Shut up Keegan.”
“Now come on Timmy, don’t go talking to your brother like that in front of the game.”
“Let’s just get this done with. I wanna go back to sleep”, *Thud* Suddenly the man fell. Just like the leopard, half of his face was blown away.
“You know it wasn’t easy finding you poachers until the thought came to me. Why do I have to track you down if you can bring yourselves to me?”
“You son a bitch. You fucking killed Trevor.” *Thud* Another one fell down. The anger of the 3 other men became confusion. They were in a state of shock. They couldn’t believe that an ordinary child would be capable of such a feat.
“You-you’re an unleveled!”
“And you’re game”, *Thud* *Thud*The last man fell to the ground. All the strength in his legs had left his body. As he said on the ground he looked at the bloodied up kid who approached him. As he stared into his deep blue eyes, he could only feel fear. Alexander now stood in front of him.
“Bill was it?”, the man could not answer. He just witnessed a teenager kill his four brothers. Annoyed by this, Alexander decided to slap his face.
“I’ll ask you some simple questions. I’ll let you go if you answer all of them. Understood?”, the man could still not utter a single word.
“Sigh”, *Thud* The man screamed in agony. Alexander blew the man’s ear away with one of the pebbles he held. Like a worm, the man squirmed around the ground.
"See? He's a very deep sleeper. You could scream all night and he wouldn't even know. So, the name's Bill right?"
"Yes, yes my name's Bill", the man continued to scream.
"Good. Now we're getting somewhere. So tell me, Bill. Are there any other poachers in your little party?"
"Yes"
"How many?"
"Around 30 or so."
"Now now Billy boy. I asked you how many. So expect an exact number, not an estimate. Or do you need some more motivation?"
"34 damnit. 34 other poachers."
"Now is that including your benefactor?", the man simply nodded.
"So who do you work for?"
"I don't know."
"Sigh."
"No really, I really don't know. He contacts us. He just sends us a ton of money and tells us what to do. I only know that he's from Brague."
"What are the things he pays you for then?”, the man remained silent.
“Come on now Bill. You won’t be able to hear me if I blow your other ear away.”
“We-we kidnap animals and kids for him”, Alexander’s expression turned dark when he heard this.
“How do you know he’s from Brague?”
“We got suspicious of our benefactor, so we did our own little research.”
“And what did you find?”
“He’s a teacher from the Brague academy.”
“Name.”
“Throsmore, Argons Throsmore”
“Throsmore. Are you sure about that?”
“Yes yes, I’m sure.”
“Why does he need them?”
“I-I don’t know”, Alexander started scratching his hair, as if he was deciding what to do next.
“Well, I guess I got more than enough information out of you. You can go now, make sure to bury your brothers and clean up the place before you go.”
“Ye-yes, sir.”
Alexander then went to the nearby stream to wash up as the man buried the corpses and cleaned up the place. Right as the man was about to finish up cleaning Alexander came back.
“Well, I gotta admit. You would make quite the cleaner. Now get going.”
“Yes sir”, the man immediately started walking away.
“Oh and Billy. Make sure we never see each other again alright?”
“Yes sir.”
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